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@travlerajm
Pickleball doubles turns out to be the revenge of the pushers … and I am now 100% committed to developing high level pball pushing skills.
In tennis … we had a “pushers rites of passage”. We developed strokes, s&v, c&c, dropshot/lob, opponent roadwork, etc good enough to get past our pusher threshold … and we never looked back. In Pickleball doubles (and even singles if you watch Ben Johns dismantle high level tennis strokes) … you soon come to the painful reality your tennis strokes/technique mean almost nothing. You will NEVER get past the pusher with your pretty strokes … and they know it. They seek you out to school you. 
Some of the better doubles player I am running into never hit a traditional tennis stroke. They might hit a screaming forehand from the baseline … but it isn’t a “stroke”. Also very good rec doubles players that never hit anything hard … UNTIL they get to the kitchen and then protect your body parts.
So … get good at kitchen or perish. I thought that would be easy for an ex-serve and volley tennis player, followed by a couple of decades of club and USTA doubles. This is part of “their” gleeful schoolin btw. For my first two weeks of open play … my beautiful tennis 1hbh volley dies a fluttering death into the net. My instinct to move feet to a proper tennis volley stance robs me of time reflexing that smash from that evil pickleball pigtailed girl
on other side. Serving team just hit that pitiful dying 3rd shot drop and demands the net closing point ending volley it deserves, but can’t breach the great wall of kitchen. Tennis brothers and sisters … hear me now … they knew we were coming and made devious rules to wipe your decades of tennis from existence. Rather brilliant actually.
So reason for post … get good at kitchen or perish. I started day one pretty much good to go with dink game … so the major starting kitchen skills gap is this imo:
- toes and nipples to the net rapid fire skills
- tight margin on “low enough” over net
- the nipples to the net ping pong arming volley also often requires some wrist
- quick/instant judgement when it needs to be neutral volley back vs “kill opponents”
So just like tennis … I have identified the reps I need. In tennis … I had a ball machine to go hit those 10,000+ bucket list two handed backhands that first summer. Now I need to take incoming kitchen fire. This will take a long time in open play with so many different levels of play.
So what I need … is a rapid fire pickleball gatling gun set up on kitchen line on other side of net. @travlerajm is our ttw tennis mad scientist … so I offer this great business money making opportunity to him. Initial versions could be manual crank on a horizontal and vertical swivel where you (or even you and a partner) could take incoming rapid fire. Future battery models with random selections, and speeds from beginner to castrate.
Trav … I only need 10% $$$ ...
Pickleball doubles turns out to be the revenge of the pushers … and I am now 100% committed to developing high level pball pushing skills.
In tennis … we had a “pushers rites of passage”. We developed strokes, s&v, c&c, dropshot/lob, opponent roadwork, etc good enough to get past our pusher threshold … and we never looked back. In Pickleball doubles (and even singles if you watch Ben Johns dismantle high level tennis strokes) … you soon come to the painful reality your tennis strokes/technique mean almost nothing. You will NEVER get past the pusher with your pretty strokes … and they know it. They seek you out to school you. Some of the better doubles player I am running into never hit a traditional tennis stroke. They might hit a screaming forehand from the baseline … but it isn’t a “stroke”. Also very good rec doubles players that never hit anything hard … UNTIL they get to the kitchen and then protect your body parts.So … get good at kitchen or perish. I thought that would be easy for an ex-serve and volley tennis player, followed by a couple of decades of club and USTA doubles. This is part of “their” gleeful schoolin btw. For my first two weeks of open play … my beautiful tennis 1hbh volley dies a fluttering death into the net. My instinct to move feet to a proper tennis volley stance robs me of time reflexing that smash from that evil pickleball pigtailed girl
on other side. Serving team just hit that pitiful dying 3rd shot drop and demands the net closing point ending volley it deserves, but can’t breach the great wall of kitchen. Tennis brothers and sisters … hear me now … they knew we were coming and made devious rules to wipe your decades of tennis from existence. Rather brilliant actually.So reason for post … get good at kitchen or perish. I started day one pretty much good to go with dink game … so the major starting kitchen skills gap is this imo:
- toes and nipples to the net rapid fire skills
- tight margin on “low enough” over net
- the nipples to the net ping pong arming volley also often requires some wrist
- quick/instant judgement when it needs to be neutral volley back vs “kill opponents”
So just like tennis … I have identified the reps I need. In tennis … I had a ball machine to go hit those 10,000+ bucket list two handed backhands that first summer. Now I need to take incoming kitchen fire. This will take a long time in open play with so many different levels of play.
So what I need … is a rapid fire pickleball gatling gun set up on kitchen line on other side of net. @travlerajm is our ttw tennis mad scientist … so I offer this great business money making opportunity to him. Initial versions could be manual crank on a horizontal and vertical swivel where you (or even you and a partner) could take incoming rapid fire. Future battery models with random selections, and speeds from beginner to castrate.
Trav … I only need 10% $$$ ...
